Maybe It's Time for Something New

 The garden is once again starting to grow. The sun has made its first appearance for the first time in weeks and I cannot find a single reason to be outside because of the wind. That's a fantastic little fail on nature's part. I like gardening but right now nothing is actually growing quite yet. We planted seeds a few days ago but it isn't really like you can do much with them. They're analogous to babies, if your baby could randomly split itself in half if it wanted a sibling after it were born. Now that you have this wonderful image in your mind, here are some of the fantastic activities that we have been able to partake in in the realm of gardening in the past week:

•    Planting seeds : self-explanatory
•    Planting dirt : just like planting seeds but much dirtier somehow
•    Un-planting weeds : planting things in reverse. You get it. Don't act like you don't.

Now normally these things would be quite fun and are usually quite rewarding when you get down to it, but when nothing is past its baby stage, all you can really do is stare at the dirt you planted and will something to happen. It's just like watching grass grow except it's not grass and it's much more pleasing to look at once it's finished growing. Pulling weeds is an even smaller story because with weeds you can watch them grow, but they're much easier to uproot or stab to death because they aren't particularly big right now. It reminds me of a certain Roman senator, albeit, with much more pulling.
  Weeding isn't particularly interesting when you can't have a battle to the death with a horrifying network of double-agents. Right now weeding is more like micromanaging a bunch of stationary toddlers. I would film it, but nobody would be particularly interested in watching some rando not talk while they search a 5x5 foot raised bed for the most minuscule hint of life to demolish. It's difficult to imagine that any of this will change anytime soon, so maybe it's time to find some new hobbies, and try some new things out. Hopefully you will enjoy this little journey.

New hobby #1: Foraging.
  Imagine gardening, but even more futile. It's still way too early for this one, so all I've found so far is seedlings and heaps of disappointment. Also lots of research, but we won't get into that because it wouldn't be super interesting to read unless you're a special kind of nerd.

New hobby #2: Reading
  This isn't really very new, but if you haven't had all will to read in your free time forcefully separated from your being by having classes of any kind, you probably won't get it. I started reading a bunch of books a while ago but that kind of fell off as school continued onward, so starting some of them again has been quite fun, especially during this quarantine. I'm currently working my way through King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo. It's essentially a story where a found family has to murder the spirit of a demon that is possessing the king of a nation that is constantly at war for various reasons. Bardugo is a fantastic author, and you should check out some of her other stuff as well.

New hobby #3: Making art?
  Sure, why not.

Enjoy this random drawing of Pidge from Voltron.












New hobby #4: scrapbooking...?
   This is literally the most boring thing I have ever done

New hobby #5: Going through random files on my phone
  I have a pdf called "Mean Sidewalks"

Let's see what this is...

 I have no idea what this is supposed to be.
Where did it come from??????


 Well none of that was super great. Hopefully you're all having more success at entertaining yourselves than I am.